You awaken in the damp dark of the Spire’s dungeon, blackmailed by the corrupt Duke who poisoned your kin: solve the assassination of the Titanbone Emperor or never see the light of day. The capital city is quarantined by an impenetrable bone-shield, trapping you with a hidden rival faction loyal to a deposed heir who claims the throne is stolen from the earth itself.
Set in Oakhaven · medieval · standard magic
Inheritance
Inherits liveThis story resolves live against its world — edits there flow down automatically.
Objectives
The Titanbone Emperor has been assassinated, and the poisonous evidence points to you. Prove your innocence by discovering the true culprit—a hidden sect loyal to the Earth's buried gods—before the Duke's patience runs out and the city starves behind the Bone-Shield.
Narrative arc
You awaken in the damp dark of the Spire’s dungeon, blackmailed by the corrupt Duke who poisoned your kin: solve the assassination of the Titanbone Emperor or never see the light of day. The capital city is quarantined by an impenetrable bone-shield, trapping you with a hidden rival faction loyal to a deposed heir who claims the throne is stolen from the earth itself.
Story beats
Plot threads
The Cult of the Hollow God is activating sleeper cells within the city walls, turning the citizens into sleeper agents via the marrow supply.
Stakes: If the cells are not purged, the city will fall to an internal uprising before the mystery is solved, locking the player out of the Upper Treads.
A masked rival investigator, loyal to the deposed heir, is tampering with your crime scenes, stealing clues to frame the Duke and spark a civil war.
Stakes: If the rival is not caught or outwitted, critical clues will be destroyed, making the final investigation significantly harder.
Locations (6)
The damp dungeon cells beneath the capital, carved directly into the fossilized bone of the Titan. You are alone, save for the rats and the bones of previous prisoners.
The dungeons deep beneath the capital, carved into the petrified hip of the titan. This is where the player awakens, imprisoned.
The grand laboratory and palace of the late Emperor. It smells of ozone and bone dust. Contains the autopsy room and the murder evidence.
A slum built along the curve of a massive rib bone, housing the Bone-Gravers Syndicate and the city's poor.
A hidden temple of fused roots and bone, deep in the petrified forest, where the Cult of the Hollow God plots to return the empire to the earth.
A watchtower carved into a vertebrae peak, housing a magical flame that holds back the undead swarms of the Spine.
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